Like I don’t really use any other social media, but sometimes (like this past week) I venture outside of my hexbear bubble and I browse twitter, or reddit, or instagram, or tiktok, and holy shit I just browse those websites for a minute or two and feel worse about myself, worse about the world, it honestly seems like everyone on those sites is completely insufferable and every post is designed in some CIA laboratory to make me irrationally angry. Like look, sometimes we can all get annoyed at each other here, and I am no exception to that, and nowhere is perfect, but wow this place is 1000% better than like the majority of the internet, I honestly don’t know how people go through life at this point browsing the regular internet.
My time spent sitting in Discord calls or scrolling for hours is significantly lower recently because somewhat ironically, the quality of posts here (outside of bad posting, DOWN with beanis) is higher so it takes less for me to be satisfied and
for a while. If not higher quality, less mentally draining or bad vibe generating. Has been good for my mental because I’ve spent more time doing things I actually enjoy.
Shortly after I discovered Hexbear I simply stopped going on Twitter. The quality of engagement there was so low. Apart from a handful of people who were nice and based it was all smug liberals and frothing Nazis.
On Hexbear you can actually have a rewarding exchange on politics with someone. You divvy have to constantly defend the right if queer and non-white people to exist or to reach through generations of anticommunist propaganda.